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It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.
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Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.
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As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.
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We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.
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No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.
Evelyn Underhill
We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
Evelyn Underhill
Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
Evelyn Underhill
